The US Department of Justice has charged businessman Robert Brockman, a software mogul in Houston, USA, by hiding about $ 2 billion in tax havens; This is the largest tax evasion case in American history.
According to Arabiya Net, the ministry said that Brockman, who is about 79 years old, evaded paying taxes through a group of entities and shell companies that he founded in cooperation with a number of Of people at home have been used as a front to hide money away from the nation's regulatory oversight, according to the Financial Times.
The chief investigator for tax evasion crimes added that Brockman concealed the money in Vista Equity, a private equity fund in the Cayman Islands, in which Brockman has poured money since 2000. His contribution at the time was about 300 million dollars, while the size of his contribution to the fund rose to about one billion dollars by the year 2004.
It is widely believed that Brockman founded a group of other fictitious entities in the Virgin Islands that were established in 1999 and later used them as a cycle in a long chain to funnel money out of sight. Authorities at a time when the famous American business tycoon was not clearly in the picture.
Brockman denied the matter altogether. His lawyer said in a statement that all the charges against his client are untrue, noting his willingness to fully cooperate with the authorities to prove his innocence.
suspicions arose about Brockman for the first time in 2006 after a series of suspicious transactions at a time when the Justice Department said that the American software mogul used an encrypted email system to protect his correspondence And his financial dealings away from the authorities' eyes.
The charges against Brockmann were not limited to tax evasion, as he was also accused of misleading the holders of his company's bonds through his fictitious entities abroad and buying those bonds from investors at low prices before the events. Substantial although the order is illegal.
